Played an unranked five-player FFA, forgot to check the rankings of all the players. My immediate neighbours are obviously new players, but one guy is slightly better than me and another is slightly worse. Boom hard (no-one picks fights early in FFA), kill no less than four scouts with my TC (was pretty pleased), and pretty much eliminated my top neighbour. Score leader comes after me, I'm terribly prepared for his army composition and I get shredded. Nominally lose my base, but fall back to one of my expansions and fight him back. I assume he just gave up under pressure from me and the other good player, because he resigned before I finished taking out his forward base.
Wipe out my other neighbour (who then by various shenanigans hung on to be the last survivor) and meet the last player doing the same thing. The next twenty minutes are aptly summarised by [Trash War Intensifies], with guest appearances by nuclear weapons (onagers). Then his connection dropped, which sucked.
Then I finished rolling up the last two, and to my great surprise emerged the victor of my first ever online game, and pulled off some pretty high level tricks in the process!
Age of Kings, with allllllll the expansions.